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This is wrote in the sound of a severe attack which is going on within three miles of us. We were attached this morning and several of our Regiments badly cut up. I do not yet know what may be the result, but from the persistency of the attack, there must be heavy loss on both sides. There is a great many Wounded brought in already but I think we will be able to hold our own. Buck [?] will be here in a few hours, with his Advance Guard of 25,000 men, the boats are ordered to hold themselves in readiness to bring him over the river.

If he reaches here in time I have no doubt but we will inflict serious loss on the enemy, but if on the contrairey [sic] he does not reach here in time we may suffer a serious Disaster, at any rate we will not make as good use of our victory as we would if he was here.

April 7th, 8 P.M. Dear Anna, I now sit down to finish what I began yesterday, having passed through 36 hours of the most Intense anxitey [sic] that I ever [?], it was an age to me. We were attacted in our Incampments by the Forces under Bueregard [Beauregard], it was a complete surprise and resulted in a complete Route of our Advance Guard, which were driven in over 3 Miles, the Enemy Killing

This is wrote in the sound of a severe attack which is going on within three miles of us. We were attached this morning and several of our Regiments badly cut up. I do not yet know what may be the result, but from the persistency of the attack, there must be heavy loss on both sides. There is a great many Wounded brought in already but I think we will be able to hold our own. Buck [?] will be here in a few hours, with his Advance Guard of 25,000 men, the boats are ordered to hold themselves in readiness to bring him over the river.

If he reaches here in time I have no doubt but we will inflict serious loss on the enemy, but if on the contrairey [sic] he does not reach here in time we may suffer a serious Disaster, at any rate we will not make as good use of our victory as we would if he was here.

April 7th, 8 P.M. Dear Anna, I now sit down to finish what I began yesterday, having passed through 36 hours of the most Intense anxitey [sic] that I ever [?], it was an age to me. We were attacted in our Incampments by the Forces under Bueregard [Beauregard], it was a complete surprise and resulted in a complete Route of our Advance Guard, which were driven in over 3 Miles, the Enemy Killing